> vocal fry and nasal voice for women. For women in certain age groups there is culturally adapted creaky voice or alternatively nasal voice. It's possible to get rid of it with very small amount of practice. It's almost never normal voice, just adopted mannerism
I know it is petty, but god does it really irritate me when someone speaks like that. I have to consciously keep in mind not to be prejudiced against an accent, but no other innocuous thing ruins a first impression for me like that aspect of a person's voice.
To the two already mentioned ones, I will add the hoarse voice often caricatured in the stupid frat bro in movies. The breathy "hey bruh" sound is one that most more clearly evokes it in my head.
I think that focusing on these at first will just make beginner speaker freeze and never make speeches in the first place. Especially when it requires you to chamge life long mannerisms.
They are sort of stuff speaker should focus on once the nerves and content and structure were handled and speaker seek to step up on next level.
Re:How to Speak (2018) [video]
by proverbialbunny on Sunday April 12, 2020 @03:39PM
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>- vocal fry and nasal voice for women. For women in certain age groups there is culturally adapted creaky voice or alternatively nasal voice. It's possible to get rid of it with very small amount of practice. It's almost never normal voice, just adopted mannerism.
Do you know of any resources on this? I feel like I have to hear it and its alternative to know what you're talking about.
also known as the valley girl talk
> "Uptalk" is the habit of ending all sentences with rising
sound. Everything sounds like a question.
Aussie women talk this way.
- Run-on sentences or not pausing enough between important sentences. If you have tendency to hurry up, it's less convincing and memorable. If you stop after a sentence, it sounds like you said something important and emphasizes it.
- vocal fry and nasal voice for women. For women in certain age groups there is culturally adapted creaky voice or alternatively nasal voice. It's possible to get rid of it with very small amount of practice. It's almost never normal voice, just adopted mannerism.
-"Uptalk" is the habit of ending all sentences with rising sound. Everything sounds like a question.
- I don't know the name for this, but some male speakers have tendency to start sentences in discussion with high pitch fast speech that slows down towards end. Even some very high profile journalists and podcast hosts have it to some extent. Ezra Klein for example.